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Duas Paginas Dos Quatorze Annos, by Guerra Junqueiro 22412
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The Choice of Life, by Georgette Leblanc 22411
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The Crofton Boys, by Harriet Martineau 22410
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A Woman who went to Alaska, by May Kellogg Sullivan 22409
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Chatterbox Stories of Natural History, by Anonymous 22408
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Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy, by Florence Partello Stuart 22407
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The Little People of the Snow, by William Cullen Bryant 22406
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The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England, by Various 22405
[Full title: The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the
Spinning-Wheel in New England]
[Subtitle: Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem,
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The Story of the White-Rock Cove, by Anonymous 22404
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Gerard Manley Hopkins 22403
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Lippincott's Magazine Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873, by Various 22402
[Full title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science,
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Stories by American Authors (Volume 4), by Woolson et al. 22401
[Full author: Constance Fenimore Woolson and H. C. Bunner and
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Fox's Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe 22400
[Subtitle: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant
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Fire-Side Picture Alphabet, by Various 22399
[Subtitle: or Humour and Droll Moral Tales;
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[Illustrator: John Andrew]
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The Heiress of Wyvern Court, by Emilie Searchfield 22398
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Shakespearean Playhouses, by Joseph Quincy Adams 22397
[Subtitle: A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to
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King Arthur's Knights, by Henry Gilbert 22396
[Subtitle: The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls]
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O Melro, by Guerra Junqueiro 22395
[Subtitle: (Fragmento)]
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Oeuvres complètes de Alfred de Musset - Tome 4 22394
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Bases pour servir aux entreprises de colonisation, by Auguste Brougnes 22393
[Full title: Bases pour servir aux entreprises de colonisation dans
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[Language: French]
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Essentials in Conducting, by Karl Wilson Gehrkens 22392
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Kritik des Herzens, by Wilhelm Busch 22391
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Prince or Chauffeur?, by Lawrence Perry 22390
[Subtitle: A Story of Newport]
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Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 22389
[Subtitle: Viisinäytöksinen huvinäytelmä]
[Translator: Jalmari Lahdensuo]
[Language: Finnish]
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Le songe doré de la pucelle, by Anonymous 22388
[Language: French]
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A Tour in Ireland, by Arthur Young 22387
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Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, by Duc de Rovigo 22386
[Full title: Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de
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[Subtitle: Tome VII]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/3/8/22386 ]
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Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, by Duc de Rovigo 22385
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[Subtitle: Tome V]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/3/8/22385 ]
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Chateaubriand et Madame de Custine, by Robethon et al. 22384
[Full author: E. Chédieu de Robethon and François-René de
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[Subtitle: Episodes et correspondance inédite]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/3/8/22384 ]
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Montaigne et Francois Bacon, by Pierre Villey 22383
[Language: French]
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The Iliad of Homer (1873), by Homer 22382
[Translator: Theodore Alois Buckley]
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E.M. Berens 22381
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893, by Various 22380
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/3/8/22380 ]
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Masters of Water-Colour Painting, by H. M. Cundall 22379
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/3/7/22379 ]
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Cervantes e Portugal, by Carlos Barroso 22378
[Subtitle: curiosidade litteraria]
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Rollo in Switzerland, by Jacob Abbott 22377
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Love to the Uttermost, by F. B. Meyer 22376
[Subtitle: Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.]
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866, by Various 22375
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CAW! CAW!, by RM 22374
[Subtitle: The Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring-time]
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Russian Fairy Tales, by W. R. S. Ralston 22373
[Subtitle: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/3/7/22373 ]
[Files: 22373.txt; 22373-8.txt; 22373-0.txt; 22373-h.htm]
A Labrador Doctor, by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 22372
[Subtitle: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell]
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Audio: The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley 22360
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Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853, by Various 22369
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Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton 22362
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Päiväkirja, by Stefan Löfving 22361
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An Essay on Professional Ethics, by George Sharswood 22359
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Eric Dorn, by Ben Hecht 22358
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Danger! and Other Stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle 22357
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L'hérésiarque et Cie, by Guillaume Apollinaire 22356
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Schelmuffskys wahrhaftige, by Christian Reuter 22355
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The Adventures of Maya the Bee, by Waldemar Bonsels 22354
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Early Theories of Translation, by Flora Ross Amos 22353
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American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edward Stratemeyer 22352
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Publisher's Advertising (1872), by Anonymous 22351
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The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier, by Edgar Beecher Bronson 22350
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Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe, by Vincent Hughes 22347
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Exile, by Horace Brown Fyfe 22346
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Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon, by Chaboulon 22345
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Remarks on the Subject of Lactation, by Edward Morton 22344
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The Wedding Ring, by T. De Witt Talmage 22343
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Supermind, by Gordon Randall Garrett and Laurence Mark Janifer 22342
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Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851, by Various 22339
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
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[Editor: George Bell]
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The Impossibles, by Gordon Randall Garrett and Laurence Mark Janifer 22338
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History of the Moors of Spain, by M. Florian 22337
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Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887, by Various 22336
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Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book, by Unknown 22335
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In Kings' Byways, by Stanley J. Weyman 22334
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Brain Twister, by Gordon Randall Garrett and Laurence Mark Janifer 22332
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[Files: 22332.txt; 22332-8.txt]
The Chocolate Soldier, by C. T. Studd 22331
[Subtitle: Heroism--The Lost Chord of Christianity]
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[Files: 22331.txt; 22331-h.htm]
Clepsydra, by Camilo Pessanha 22330
[Subtitle: Poêmas de Camillo Pessanha]
[Language: Portuguese]
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